Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York

Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York
Author: Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2001
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781566398886

In this work, 19 scholars from a range of disciplines discuss New York's immigrant communities. They explore the interaction between economic globalization and transnationalization, demographic change, and the evolving racial, ethnic and gender dynamics in the city.

Mexican New York

Mexican New York
Author: Robert Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2006
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780520244139

'Mexican New York' offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants & their children in New York & in Mexico.

Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration

Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration
Author: Nina Glick Schiller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1992
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

This work comprising 15 papers develops a broad understanding of the emerging transnational experience of current immigrants to the United States, compares the patterns of transnationalism of different migrating populations, and re-examines current cconceptualisations of race, ethnicity, nationalism, class and gender.

New Immigrants in New York

New Immigrants in New York
Author: Nancy Foner
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780231124157

This acclaimed anthology brings together the top people in their respective fields to discuss the impact that immigration has had on the character of New York City and also the cultural impact that coming to a new environment has had on immigrants. Thoroughly updated to encompass the newest waves of immigration, the book now covers Dominicans, former Soviets, Chinese, and Jamaicans as well as Mexicans, Koreans, and West Africans.

Being a Man in a Transnational World

Being a Man in a Transnational World
Author: Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134601883

This book explores the masculinity and sexuality of migration, analyzing the complex processes of becoming a man and the strategies used by men to reconcile paradoxes and contradictions that co-exist between multiple masculinities and contradictory models of being a man. Vasquez del Aguila offers a number of conceptual contributions, including the notion of “masculine capital” that provides men with the necessary “masculine” skills and cultural competence to achieve legitimacy and social recognition as men; an analysis of male friendship where notions of solidarity and intimacy co-exist with those of distrust, competition, and power relations; and three social representations of being a man: the winner, the failed, and the good enough man. By analyzing heterosexual as well as gay masculinities, and incorporating race and class relations, this study shows the multiplicity and hierarchies of masculinities presented within a particular cultural context. Through ethnographic research undertaken over more than four years in New York and Lima, Peru, this book also examines the role of the Internet and transnational romances and the ways in which migration can create new opportunities for male sexual intimacy, while for others, it creates loneliness and isolation.

Latinas/os in the United States

Latinas/os in the United States
Author: Havidan Rodriguez
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2007-11-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0387719431

The Latina/o population in the United States has become the largest minority group in the nation. Latinas/os are a mosaic of people, representing different nationalities and religions as well as different levels of education and income. This edited volume uses a multidisciplinary approach to document how Latinas and Latinos have changed and continue to change the face of America. It also includes critical methodological and theoretical information related to the study of the Latino/a population in the United States.

A Sociology of Immigration

A Sociology of Immigration
Author: E. Morawska
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2009-08-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230240879

This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration. It examines four major issues informing current sociological studies of immigration: mechanisms and effects of international migration, processes of immigrants' assimilation and transnational engagements, and the adaptation patterns of the second generation.

Constructing Borders/crossing Boundaries

Constructing Borders/crossing Boundaries
Author: Caroline Brettell
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780739115695

The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse immigrant populations in the United States. Race and ethnicity can both unite and divide. The individual scholars contributing to this volume model, deploy, and explain notions of "borders" and "boundaries" in various ways, but collectively they emphasize the fluidity of racial and ethnic identities that are shaped, negotiated, and contested in specific contexts and situations. Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries also captures the range of spaces in which ethnicity and race become salient--the university, the immigrant enclave, the detention center, the work place, the nightclub, and even the trans-Atlantic passage. This interdisciplinary work features essays on a diverse range of immigrant populations from past to present and will interest scholars from across disciplines.

Multicultural America [4 volumes]

Multicultural America [4 volumes]
Author: Ronald H. Bayor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 2389
Release: 2011-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313357870

This encyclopedia contains 50 thorough profiles of the most numerically significant immigrant groups now making their homes in the United States, telling the story of our newest immigrants and introducing them to their fellow Americans. One of the main reasons the United States has evolved so quickly and radically in the last 100 years is the large number of ethnically diverse immigrants that have become part of its population. People from every area of the world have come to America in an effort to realize their dreams of more opportunity and better lives, either for themselves or for their children. This book provides a fascinating picture of the lives of immigrants from 50 countries who have contributed substantially to the diversity of the United States, exploring all aspects of the immigrants' lives in the old world as well as the new. Each essay explains why these people have come to the United States, how they have adjusted to and integrated into American society, and what portends for their future. Accounts of the experiences of the second generation and the effects of relations between the United States and the sending country round out these unusually rich and demographically detailed portraits.